Re:Ask HN: Do you track uptime of third party tools?
by simplecto on Monday December 28, 2020 @07:53PM
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You can write scripts for nagios to monitor those endpoints or do end-to-end tests for you. I have done this in banking , healthcare, and gaming.
On a smaller scale you can probably just have cron jobs run these and email/sms you when things fall down.
Forgot to add -- generally though in production you will detect very early on when your code starts crashing or gets rejection rates.
In my day job we generally know when FB/Apple/Google are down/degraded before the larger internet because of scale and integration with their payments and our monitoring.
On a smaller scale you can probably just have cron jobs run these and email/sms you when things fall down.
Forgot to add -- generally though in production you will detect very early on when your code starts crashing or gets rejection rates.
In my day job we generally know when FB/Apple/Google are down/degraded before the larger internet because of scale and integration with their payments and our monitoring.